This article describes rates of missing item responses in personal digital assistant (PDA) assessments as compared to paper assessments. Data come from the evaluation of a classroom-based leisure, life skills, and sexuality education program delivered to high school students in Cape Town, South...

Lam and Schoeni (1993) consider an equation where earnings are explained by schooling and ability. They assume that ability data are lacking and that schooling is measured with error. The estimate obtained by regressing earnings on schooling thus contains omitted variable bias (OVB), which is...

This paper considers unit root testing of time-series data with missing observations. Three procedures for dealing with the gaps are discussed. These include: ignoring the gaps, replacing the gaps with the last available observation, and filling the gaps with a linear interpolation method. The...

This paper considers unit root testing of time-series data with missing observations. Three procedures for dealing with the gaps are discussed. These include: ignoring the gaps, replacing the gaps with the last available observation, and filling the gaps with a linear interpolation method. The...